Bottle-cleaner



ATTORNEY,

(No'ModeL) v A. G. A. EKROTH'.

BOTTLE CLEANER.

No. 393,100. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT Games.

ANDERS G. A. EKROTH, OF ISHPEMING, MICHIGAN. I

BOTTLE-CLEANER.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,100, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed May 10, 1888. Serial No. 273,441. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern..-

Be it known that I, ANDERs GUSTAVE AN- DERSON EKROTH, of Ishpeming, in the county of Marquette and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottie-Cleaners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in devices for cleaning bottles, and has for its object to provide a device of simple and durable construction, which may be readily inserted in a. small vial or a largejug, and wherein the said device when rotated will not only clean the sides and bottom of the receptacle but also the ring-shaped cavity usually formed around and about the elevated portion of some bottles.

The invention consists in the, construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure l is a side elevation of the device when expanded, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same partially closed for insertion in the bottle to be cleaned.

The body oftheinvention consists of two vertical parallel side rods, 10, which rods are pro vided at the top and bottom and at the center with cross-bars 11,12, and 13, respectively, the said cross-bars being pivoted to one face of the side rods. One of the rods 10 is made to project below the lower cross-bar, 12, and is provided with an attached tassel, 14, which tassel may be made of hair, hemp, or other suitable or equivalent material.

Upon the outer surfaces of the several side rods, and also the lower cross-bar, a series of bristles or hempen strands or equivalent brushlike material is attached, forming thereby side brushes, 15 and 16, and an end brush, 17, as best shown in Fig. 1. These brushes are preferably continuous, extending from end to end of their several supports.

A vertical rod, 18, is pivoted to the central cross-bar, 13, preferably slightly to the left of the center, which rod is carried upward beyond thehipper crossbar any suitable or desired distance. A second and parallel vertical rod, 19,

is secured preferably to the right of the center of the upper cross-bar, 11. The two rods 18 and 19 at their upper ends are pivotall y secured to opposite sides of a horizontal hand-lever, 20, at or near the center thereof. Below the handlever the said rods 18 and 19 are encircled by a collar, 21, in which they have freedom of motion, which collar is adapted, when the device is in use, to fit down and rest upon the neck of whereas if the orifice of the bottle is largethey will be left wider apart. When the device has been inserted in the bottle, the hand-lever is brought down again as neara horizontal position as possible, whereby the side brushes are brought in contact with-the sides of the vessel, and the device having been pushed as far down as possible in said vessel the lower brush is brought in contact with the bottom, while the tassel 14 is left to trail along the side in the crevice formed by the union of the vessels sides and bottom. To complete the operation of washing after the water and soap or other desired material has been inserted, the device being stayed or held in the receptacle by contact of the collar 21 with the mouth thereof, the-said device may be rapidly revolved by means of the lever 20, and the receptacle thoroughly cleansed.

This simple, inexpensive, and durable device will more readily and thoroughly cleanse a receptacle, whether it be large or small, than the small leaden bullets,'shot, or sand that has heretofore been employed for this purpose.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device for cleaning bottles and similar receptacles, the combination, with brushcarrying parallel side rods, a lower pivoted brush-carrying cross-bar, and a central and an upper cross-bar, of a vertical rod pivoted at one side of the center of the central bar, a similar rod pivoted to the opposite side of the center of the upper cross-bar, and a handle pivotally attached to said rods, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with parallel vertical ln'ush-carrying side rods, alower bruslrearrying cross-bar pivoted to said rods, and a central and upper cross-bar also pivoted to the rods, of a vertical rod pivoted at one side of the center of the central bar, a similar rod pivoted to the opposite side of the center of the upper crossbar, a horizontal handle pivotally united to said rods, and a tassel adapted to and pendent from the lower extremity of one of the side rods, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

8. The combination, with brush-carrying .20 side rods, a lower brush-carrying cross-bar pivoted to said rods, a central and upper crossbar also pivoted to the side rods, of a vertical rod pivoted to the left of the center of the central cross-bar, a similar rod pivoted to the right 2 5 of the center of the upper cross-bar, a handle pivotally attached to the upper extremities of said rods, a collar revolving upon the rods be tween the upper cross-bar and the handle, and a tassel attached to and pendent from one of 30 the side bars, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

ANDERS G. A. EKROTH.

WVitnesses:

IVER J OHNSON, AXEL E. NELSON. 

